Join us for:
- Discussions of the films with their directors, psychoanalysts and the audience
- Lectures and round-tables with analysts and film scholars
- A social programme to accompany the festival

The festival is aimed at anyone with a passion for cinema who would like the opportunity to see and explore excellent European films, providing a forum for creative dialogue between psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, film makers, academics, critics, students and film enthusiasts. It is organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis under the Honorary Presidency of Bernardo Bertolucci.

“Secrets and psychoanalysis are natural interlocutors, and the most suitable and best qualified venue where to see them interacting (and in conflict…) is the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival: the most prestigious and attractive event of the year for those who feel passionate about these two extraordinary realities of our contemporary culture”.

LECTURES
Ian Christie on the Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting and other cine-secrets by Raoul Ruiz

John Rignell on: The Secrets we keep in order to feel safe: loss, place and resolution in Clair Denis’ 35 Shots of Rum, 2008

OTHER EVENTS
Welcome by Nick Temple, President of the British Psychoanalytical Society and by Andrea Sabbadini, Director of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival. Followed by Colloque de Chiens (Conversation Among Dogs) (France 1977, 22 mins) introduced by Valeria Sarmiento.

ABOUT EPFF
Established in 2001, the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival (epff) is a unique forum for creative dialogue between psychoanalysts, filmmakers, academics, critics and the public. Held every two years, the festival is organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis and has Bernardo Bertolucci as its honorary president.

The previous festival, held in 2011, was attended by over 300 delegates from 28 countries who enjoyed a superb programme of high-quality films and in-depth discussion.